Hold Congress accountable for Obamacare

The government runs the postal service and it loses money. It runs Social Security and says itís running out of money. It runs Medicare and says itís running out of money. What do Democrats do? They decide the government should run health care.

Harry Reid, as I recall, said Democrats committed a scam to prevent President Bush from making appointments while Congress was in recess. I think his biggest scam was getting Obamacare through the Senate and thus forcing it on the American people. In Nat Hentoffís column in the Mercury on Nov. 13, it says that Harry Reid said the Affordable Care Act was a first step to work past employer provided health care insurance to a government-run health care system.

Near the end of 2014, after the November 2014 elections, we will find out if people with employer provided health insurance get the shaft like the millions of people with individual policies that are being cancelled because of Obamacare. As I recall, Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. said something in the order of whatís in a bill or what a bill says isnít as important as passing it. He voted for Obamacare.

In the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi told congressmen, as I recall, you have to pass it first to find out what is in it. Democrats passed it. In my opinion, they didnít read it and they didnít care how it would affect the United States, the American people or more especially the people who elected them. It seems to me all they cared about was blindly obeying their party leadership.

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We are told Medicare is running out of money. Now we find out the Affordable Care Act cut $716 billion from Medicareís budget to help pay for itself. We are told millions of people may be eligible to sign up for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. On page A-7 in The Mercury on Nov. 13 an Associated Press article by Marc Levy states that Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare Secretary, Beverly Mackereth, is concerned Pennsylvania will lose about $325 million in federal Medicaid funding next year. Who is going to pay for the new Medicaid enrollees?

President Obama said if you like your health care plan, you can keep it; if you like your doctor, you can keep them. Those turned out to be lies.

Republicans tried to stop this health care fiasco from being unleashed on the American people; Democrats wouldnít budge, so naturally Republicans were blamed for shutting down the government. The mandatory clause in Obamacare should show people that the Democrats or Progressives, as they now like to call themselves, do not want to serve you, they want to rule you. The people should decide if they have health care worth having, not the government.

Whether you agree with me or not, weíll all find out how good Obamacare is by the end of next year. The Mercury and all newspapers in the U.S. would do a great service to American voters before next Novemberís election if they printed a list of the U.S. senators and U.S. representatives who voted to pass Obamacare.